1825.] 
of practical and scientific experience ;*and 
inasmuch as\the author:lias’** had the’ rood, 
or, a8''Sortte Wie have ifthe baa” fortune, 
to ee ie née tH He gout'ih, his. dian persou,” 
thereby. ‘possessed the means of daily 
det é yarious symptoms,” ce, Phy- 
sician, eure, thyself, i is, in such .cases, un- 
doubtedly,.., a»/good.,.touchstone kind of 
maxim 3and: My,’ Ri assures'us that 
«« The ultimate fesult‘has been,’ that the writer, 
for himself, hasiascertained means bywhich he has 
fs) ned entire. immunity from the disorder, of 
which he he had become morbidly susceptible from the 
slightest. ‘causes and not a few others, who have been 
led fo adopt measures adapted to their individual 
circumstances, have also obtained similar relief.” 
of Under such circumstances,” we readily 
admi 2 that “it is not presuming too much 
to. im the liberty of thinking for himself,’’ 
however, he differs from some high 
authorities, i in his notions of this disease and 
oe rescribed. modes of treatment, he pre- 
to no specific, and puffs off no pa- 
ental or exclusiye nostrum. But against 
the use of the fashionable remedy colchicum, 
is protest is direet ; and he maintains it as 
a fact indisputably admitted by all medical 
observers of experience, that the relief it 
affords i is invariably obtained at heavy ex- 
pense to the constitution ; entailing a train 
of eyils greatly more serious than that which 
been remoyed ; and, indeed, aggra- 
vating the constitutional tendency, while it 
removes the present symptoms ; 5; so as to 
occasion, by every repetition of the tempo- 
rary remedy, more and more frequent, the 
recurrence of the disease. On the patho- 
logy of the gout, he examines the opinions 
of Hippocrates, Galen, &c. ; of Sydenham, 
Cullen, Brown, Darwin, Sutton, Parkinson, 
AIT Y,, Johnson, Scudamore; &e., and then 
proceeds to Consider the causes, constitu- 
tional and incidental, . from whence it arises ; 
pa May just observe by the way, shews 
.to be, no rigid advocate of that 
es are and sallow abstinence” which some 
prsarai as an infallible remedy or 
Wests 
The ps ‘esent, it seems, is only the avant 
courier of a second yol. which the author is 
ig for the press; namely, “A 
ee eon, Gout, Pathological, Therapeu- 
and 1! Practical ; or, an Attempt to eltici- 
aes the Nature anid Causes of 
order, and to deduce definite and 
beri for its Preyention and 
te," fe 
iginal de M.: Le Bark 
Jeunesse. Par M. 
12mo,. — This 
wok ay published by M. Theis, 
is upon: el of the Voyage of Ana- 
charsis;in) Greece ; and though all works, 
particnlarly, of this description, must, ne- 
cessarilys, lose agreat portion of their in- 
1iM, ajmexe, abridgment, the volume 
ps svills 88, prove an, impor- 
tant assistant to young beginners in the 
Mowtuiy Mac, No, 414. 
Domestic and Foreign. 
153 
study of; ancient history: By. all- classes 
it will be read with pleasure: yand.ntility 25 
containing auch. information; coneatning 
the public: and private life ;of the »Romans, 
their. laws, both. civil .and., mulitany,. their 
literature, their arts: and scienges,, and, an 
short, their manners and customs: in-¢ 
particular.  Polyeléte begins- his)-trai 
immediately upon the conquest. of Athens 
by. Sylla:. He is sent as an hostage, to 
Rome, where he is admitted, upon the 
most intimate terms, into the family of the 
Consul Octavius; he has there an oppor- 
tunity of witnessing the oppressive tyranny. 
of the Roman generals, even to their coun- 
trymen ; and, also, their magnificence and 
grandeur. After minutely deseribing the 
horrible massacres, in Rome, by the tsur- 
per Marius, and the bloody vengeance of 
Sylla, Polyeléte is sent back to his country 
by a magnanimous effort ofthis same Sylla. 
But this action, though noble in itself, cans 
not make us forget his detestable. cruelties 
and vices. 
Ambition. 3. vols. 12mo,— The mate, 
rials of this work are good, and many of 
the incidents highly interesting and well 
wrought; but there is great want of ar- 
rangement throughout. More- than two 
volumes, out of the three, are occupied by 
the relation of circumstances prior to the 
time in which the characters are brought 
under our view; which renders the plot 
intricate, and the story somewhat confused. 
We ‘think, also, that the authoress (for 
such we infer the sex of the writer from 
the passage we quote) is rather too fond of 
personal deseriptions. 
‘« Do not be apprehensive,” cried Percival (to 
Miss Winny Vaughan), ‘* when you turn author, I 
will fight your. battles through thick and-thins be- 
sides, the British public have ever been remarkable 
for their liberality ~to youth and woman, even 
though she should prove to be a Welchwoman.” 
If, as this passage infers, the present 
work is the production of a young woman; 
we think it deserves encouragement. We 
have no doubt it will afford amusement to 
the generality of readers. 
Traditions of Edinburgh; or .Shetches 
and Anecdotes of the City in former Times, 
By Rosert CHamBers.—Nos. 1. 2. 3. 4, 
This is one of those tittle-tattle publica 
tions which may amuse grown children at the 
tea-table, and furnish materials for prattle, 
when topics of a more temporary descrip- 
tion happen to fail, or anecdotes of neigh- 
bouring streets, and neighbouring dowagers 
still in existence, appear fo be exhausted: 
For our climate, however, it is rather exotic. 
Here and there, it is true, a sketch, or an. 
anecdote may be found interpersed, with 
which English ears, attuned to such exeur- 
sive chit-chat, may be amused ; but the, 
work is evidently better calewated for the 
thetidian of Edinburgh itself{—that. extraor- 
dinary focus of the frivolous'profound, where 
all the inhabitants (mate and female) are at 
once philosophers and gossips—where athe- 
X ists 
